8:00 – 8:45 a.m. / 9:00 a.m.

Messiah University Homecoming 5k $

Come join us for a chip timed 5K color* run around Messiah’s beautiful campus. The course will be a mix of pavement and trail taking you by the Yellow Breeches Creek and through our campus forest. Stay after for prize giveaways and race refreshments. *we understand some individuals might not want to participate in the color portion of this run. During registration you will select if you want color or not. Only those wearing the white color run shirts will get color.

8:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

Men’s Club Soccer Alumni Match

Rec Field #1

8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Homecoming Check-In & Information

Eisenhower Campus Center

9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Aughinbaugh Gallery

Climenhaga Fine Arts Center

10:00 a.m.

Alumni Women’s Field Hockey Pick-up

Anderson Field

10:00 a.m.

Alumni Women’s Soccer Pick-up

Practice Fields

10:00 a.m.

Alumni Wrestling Practice

Sollenberger Sports Center, Wrestling Room

10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Women & Men’s Alumni Tennis Match

Criste Courts

10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.

Archives Open House

Murray Library, Lower Level

10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

The Collaborative Canvas

Join us for this collaborative painting project designed by Daniel Finch, Professor of Art, and led by Art and Design students.

10:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Oakes Museum Open House & Children’s Craft

Jordan Science Center, Oakes Museum

10:30 a.m.

“Earthkeepers” Nature Walk

Departs from Oakes Museum

11:00 a.m.

Alumni Softball Pick-up

Starry Athletic Fields, Softball Field

11:00 a.m.

Powderpuff: First Years vs. Sophomores

Rec Field #1

11:00 a.m.

Alumni Baseball Pick-up

Starry Athletic Fields, Baseball Field

11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Lifelong Learning Sessions

• Ryan Farris: Wearable Robotics for Gait Rehabilitation (Boyer 130) - The field of physical medicine and rehabilitation increasingly incorporates advanced technology to improve patient outcomes. Over the past decade, wearable robotic devices have become part of this trend, providing enhanced gait therapy and greater functional mobility to individuals with spinal cord injury or stroke. Dr. Ryan Farris spent nearly a decade in the med tech industry developing such technologies and continues his research now at Messiah University. He will describe his journey of inventing and commercializing medical robotic systems and will introduce some promising concepts currently under development in the Messiah Collaboratory.
• Shelly Skinner & Brian Smith: Thriving Together: A Unique University–Community Partnership (Boyer 131) - In 2020 Messiah University secured a major Lilly Endowment grant for Thriving Together: Congregations for Racial Justice. This exciting program connects the University with regional congregations in an effort to:
  • deepen and broaden our understandings of the relationship between race and Christian practice in our region, and
  • cultivate a commitment to the practice of racial justice and reconciliation among congregations in Central Pennsylvania.
  Join us to learn about Thriving Together, hear from alumni participating with their churches, and meet student fellows supporting these congregations.
• Mindy Smith & Doug Miller - Science and shalom- body, mind, and soul integration (Boyer 132): This session will include information on how science supports the God’s amazing design of integrated body, mind, and soul. In addition, we’ll share personal and practical ideas for pursuing shalom in our daily lives.

11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Various Open Houses

Agape Center, Collaboratory, Engle Center, Multicultural Student Programs Office, Murray Library & Rafiki House

11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Prospective Student Pizza Reception

Admissions & Welcome Center 310 – Tours follow reception

12:00 p.m.

Alumni Men’s Volleyball Match

Hitchcock Arena

Noon

Alumni Men’s Soccer Pick-up

Practice Fields

Noon

Alumni Women’s Lacrosse Pick-up

Lacrosse Turf

12:15 p.m.

Powderpuff: Juniors vs. Seniors

Rec Fields

12:30 p.m.

Instrument Petting Zoo

High Center

12:30 – 4:00 p.m.

Li’l Falcon Zone

Larsen Student Union, Patio & Lawn

1:00 p.m.

Campus Tour

Departs from Admissions & Welcome Center 310

1:00 p.m.

Women’s Field Hockey vs. Widener University

Anderson Field

1:00 p.m.

Alumni Swim Meet

Natatorium

1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Alumni Men & Women’s Ultimate Frisbee

Upper Baseball Field

1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Computing, Mathematics & Physics Reunion

Frey Lobby

1:30 p.m.

Powderpuff: Championship Game

Rec Field #1

2:00 p.m.

Messiah University Symphony Orchestra and Concert Choir

High Center, Parmer Hall Timothy Dixon and Joy Meade, conductors

2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Lifelong Learning Sessions (Locations TBD)

• Sessions and speakers TBD.

2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Reunion Row Reception

Reunion Row provides an opportunity for ALL ALUMNI, regardless of graduation year, to reconnect with classmates during Homecoming Weekend.  While we are extending an invitation to ALL ALUMNI to join us at Reunion Row, a special token will be provided to alumni celebrating milestone reunions (classes of '82, '92, '97, '02, '12).  Reunion Row will take place in the center of campus on the new lawn from 2:00-4:00pm on October 1st. *Note: While registration is not required, it is requested as we hope to provide light refreshments to all guests.  This is a drop-in reception with no specific programming.    

3:00 p.m.

Alumni Women’s Club Soccer Pick-up

Rec Field #1

3:00 p.m.

Varsity Women’s Soccer vs. Salisbury University

Shoemaker Field

3:00 p.m.

Alumni Men’s Lacrosse Pick-up

Lacrosse Turf

3:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

Various Food Trucks

Vendors will be available across the Covered Bridge in the Lower Starry parking lot.

4:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.

Department of Biological Sciences Reunion

Jordan Atrium

5:00 p.m.

White-Out March

Hostetter Chapel

6:00 p.m.

Varsity Men’s Soccer vs. Christopher Newport University

Shoemaker Field

7:30 p.m.

Jazz Ensembles Concert

High Center, Parmer Hall

8:30 p.m.

Fireworks

Shoemaker Field

9:00 p.m.

SAB Homecoming Coffeehouse

Eisenhower Campus Center, Brubaker Auditorium